Does the tool require Sign-in? No sign in is required, but we did have some difficulty with updating and enabling Java. You also need to subscribe to the feed to access content.
Description of Tool: It is a free online application where you can make word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
How does the tool apply to your curricular area? It could be used as a way of introducing students to a topic to assess prior knowledge. It is a great way to show a visual of something to a group of students, even if they don’t have computers themselves. You can make your lesson plan into a word cloud. Make a word cloud out of a math word problem, teach proportion and scale using the size of the clouds
Where does the tool fit in Digital Blooms and why? It is some of analyzing and evaluating, mostly creating.
Extras: Some teachers have used Wordle as a get-to-know-you activity.
Scott, Tina, Joseph, Stefani
Name of Tool:
Wordle
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Does the tool require Sign-in?
No sign in is required, but we did have some difficulty with updating and enabling Java. You also need to subscribe to the feed to access content.
Description of Tool:
It is a free online application where you can make word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
How does the tool apply to your curricular area?
It could be used as a way of introducing students to a topic to assess prior knowledge.
It is a great way to show a visual of something to a group of students, even if they don’t have computers themselves. You can make your lesson plan into a word cloud. Make a word cloud out of a math word problem, teach proportion and scale using the size of the clouds
Where does the tool fit in Digital Blooms and why?
It is some of analyzing and evaluating, mostly creating.
Extras:
Some teachers have used Wordle as a get-to-know-you activity.
Get To Know You
Teachers can also use it to deconstruct theories for students to reorder.
Used in MathWordles are a visual approach to displaying polls/surveys to see the most popular opinions.
Polls
It can be used as a pre-reading assessment where students try to figure out what an article is about before reading.
Pre-Reading
Here’s our Wordle!
Group 2https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/document/d/1L0Uh6bDQTvj4pdLAP0IvMO4PU74MkPkv2od87bqOVhQ/edit